The Big Island -

[BillZ]

One of the main reasons I love diving is encounters with large pelagics and you can't beat the Big Island of Hawaii for affordable diving and shore access to the big stuff.

This first video is a compilation of my morning dives at Two Step, a site located in Captain Cook about 15 miles south of Kona. We stay in the area so every morning of our trip I would get up before dawn, gear up and hit the water at sunrise to catch the reef as it starts to wake up.

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This clip was shot outside of Honokohau Marina just north of Kona. I was scootering along the reef when I noticed that the schools reef fish were jetting into the coral for cover, which isn't typical. I glanced behind and saw, tracking 15 feet behind me, Laverne a 14 foot resident Tiger Shark. I quickly stopped and swung the scooter around to get it between me and the shark. She made a wide arc around me and took off into the blue. Unfortunately I had to boot up my Gopro so I only got this short clip of the encounter (damn low battery).

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[Scubie Doo]

Awesome videos! I love two-step one of my favorite dive sites in all of Hawaii.

[Scubie Doo]

And beautiful tiger shark. That's at the top of my must see list.

[Jeremy]

Great vid!

[Gdog]

Very awesome! Loved both videos. Nicely done

[Tom Nic]

Wow. Video of the dolphins and the music was simply mesmerizing.

And of course the Tiger is epic!

[YellowEye]

Epic, Bill!